This past week was a busy one in Denver, to be sure. Mayor Michael Hancock found himself in the crosshairs of a national debate raging about sanctuary cities and whether President Donald Trump would punish municipalities that are outspoken advocates of undocumented immigrants. Neil Gorsuch, a federal appellate judge in…
The Turing School of Software & Design spent eight months looking for space to house the 500 students who enroll in its program annually before finding suitable digs in the basement of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. building at 1331 17th Street in lower downtown. “I thought it might…
Through a good portion of last year, rent prices in the metro-Denver area began to plateau in many, though not all, parts of the city. But the trends appear to be changing. According to a just-released report from ApartmentList.com, rent prices are up in most of the ten major neighborhoods highlighted by the site when analyzed both monthly and yearly.
A newly released document purporting to list the fifty highest-priority infrastructure projects according to the administration of President Donald Trump includes improvements along Interstate 70 through the mountain corridor and Interstate 25 between Castle Rock and Monument. Problem is, the report’s origins are unclear and a couple of notable errors in the Colorado sections raise questions about whether those who penned the report, on view below, are actually up to speed.
Proposition 106, which legalized what proponents call medical aid in dying, a process by which patients diagnosed with six months or fewer to live may be provided with a prescription they can self-administer in order to end their suffering, won overwhelming approval in the November 2016 election, passing by a 65-35 percent margin. But a representative of the measure’s main advocacy organization admits to frustration over the number of Colorado hospitals — dozens of them — that are making it more difficult for potentially qualifying individuals to access the procedure.
A medical examiner has determined that the cause of CorePower Yoga founder and Denver business legend Trevor Tice’s mysterious December death inside his San Diego home was accidental. It’s believed that the bloody head trauma that killed him came as a result of falls that took place while he was under the influence of alcohol and assorted anti-depressants.
Is the solution to reducing or eliminating Interstate 25 traffic jams along the northern corridor a high-tech tube called Hyperloop One, through which passengers and cargo can travel at speeds up to 700 miles per hour? The folks at the Colorado Department of Transportation hope so, and while the concept sounds like science fiction, they believe it’s on the verge of becoming fact.
Bowing to pressure from community groups and fossil lovers, Jefferson County’s Board of County Commissioners voted last night against a proposed rezoning that would have placed up to four auto dealerships in close proximity to the most significant dinosaur track site in the country.
It’s hard now to imagine a time when Denver real estate wasn’t booming — when we weren’t used to the the sounds of jackhammers pounding away at concrete or paying big-city prices in rent. Here are just ten projects in the works in and around Denver. 1. Jeffco Battles Over Proposed…
On Tuesday, January 17, Jeffco’s board of county commissioners will consider a proposed zoning change for a planned 140-acre development on four parcels straddling the four corners of the Alameda and C-470 interchange. The change would allow for a proposed hotel and gas station southeast of the interchange and, on the northwest quadrant, up to four car dealerships, which would surround the Dinosaur Ridge visitor center on three sides. Representatives of the developer, Three Dinos LLC, have described the request as “a minor change” in use for property that’s been zoned for commercial development for nearly a decade. But opponents of the plan say there’s nothing minor about the impacts the development would have on adjoining open-space land, on wildlife, on nearby hiking and biking trails, and on one of the last scenic vistas in the Rooney Valley, which has seen increasing encroachment by highways, the Solterra housing development, a motocross park, Bandimere Speedway and other projects.
SugarSquare will serve as an office building and connect to the historic Sugar Building.
After another surprise visit by the fire department, the RiNo Art District is pushing the city to insure the future of Denver’s DIY spaces.
Oskar Blues is expanding to Colorado Springs with the opening of a new restaurant, music venue and taproom in the historic DeGraff Building at 118 North Tejon Street. The four-story masonry building was constructed in 1897, restored in 1982 and then home to Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom for 33…
A spokesman for Frontier Airlines says that the airline is still investigating the root causes of the carrier’s “meltdown” that led to thousands of passengers experiencing delays or canceled flights over the weekend of December 16. “First, we would like to apologize to our customers whose travel plans were impacted…
For months, people traveling the Platte River Greenway or driving northwest along Speer Boulevard have marveled at the behemoth building rising near Confluence Park, towering over the nearby converted warehouses and Victorian storefronts, wondering when — if ever — it will finally stop. And now it has. The team behind the Confluence,…
With the Maven hotel opening in March, the historic Windsor Dairy Block is poised to become LoDo’s next go-to destination for shopping and dining. The 172-room hotel at 18th and Wazee streets will become the fourth independent hotel in Sage Hospitality’s Denver portfolio, joining the Crawford Hotel at Union Station,…
As usual, Fort Collins’s Pat Stryker appeared on the most recent version of the Forbes 400, an annual list of America’s wealthiest people, and her net worth, estimated in mid-October at $2.6 billion, makes her the fifth-richest Coloradan. And while she personally keeps a low profile, she created a philanthropic…
Arapahoe House, a nonprofit that specializes in drug and alcohol treatment, has decided to stop providing detox services to three major metro-area counties and twenty local hospitals. CEO Mike Butler says this move is being made in part because running a detox program costs far more money than it brings in and involves little actual treatment.
An old barn just outside of Pueblo that appears to be on the verge of collapse has been shored up.
It’s been nearly a week since Frontier Airlines’ meltdown following a Denver snowstorm, and remarkably, ripple effects from the rash of delays and cancellations (and resulting passenger frustration) continue to be felt across the country. Examples? Yesterday morning, the Arizona Republic reported that Frontier had cancelled flights to and from Phoenix’s Sky…
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that Colorado is the seventh fastest-growing state in the country, having added 91,726 new residents (or almost 10,000 per month) between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016 to bring the overall population to 5,540,545. And as evidenced by traffic on I-25…
More than fifty years after she saved one of the oldest blocks in Denver and created Larimer Square, her first adventure in historic preservation, 85-year-old Dana Crawford is staking claims in two mining towns: Trinidad and Idaho Springs. After five decades in the development business, Crawford was initially reluctant to…
